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Access to Knowledge 2019–2020 Utilisation Certificate
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<b>Access to Knowledge 2019–2020 WMF APG Utilisation Certificate</b>
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No publishertitoWikimediaAccess to Knowledge2020-09-30T22:15:27ZBlog EntryCIS-A2K Utilisation Certificate financial year 2018-2019
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-utilisation-certificate-financial-year-2018-2019
<b>This is the utilisation certificate of the Centre for Internet and Society, for the year 1 July 2018 - 30 June 2019.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-utilisation-certificate-financial-year-2018-2019'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-utilisation-certificate-financial-year-2018-2019</a>
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No publishertitoUtilisation certificateAccess to Knowledge2020-03-10T08:25:21ZFileCIS-A2K Communication Officer position
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-communication-officer-position
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications only from prospective candidates who identify themselves as women, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications, the position is also known as Communication Officer), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team.</b>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Context of the CIS-A2K programme</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">As an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and Wikipedia’s sister project, we design and implement different projects with an aim to create high quality content and cultivate new contributors to Wikimedia projects. The projects will be premised on themes and seek to create a multilingual repository of knowledge using Wikimedia projects as a knowledge platform. You are encouraged to deeply engage with the CIS-A2K work plan before making the application. You will work cohesively with the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia India Chapter to meet specific goals of each language community in India. You will be a part of a small team of 5 to 10 doing high visibility and high impact work. Please learn more about CIS-A2K <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K">here</a>. </p>
<h2>Position summary</h2>
<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e872459b-7fff-84b8-c620-88d7bf2f0d83">As a Programme Officer, your job will be to support the Team’s larger goals -- growth of Indian-language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects (hereinafter Wikimedia projects), and the contributor communities (hereinafter Community). Your primary responsibility will be to support the Programme Associates -- that spearhead our on-ground programmatic activities -- with regular communications with the community and the world outside.</span></div>
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<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1fd20a7-7fff-39c5-20f7-8e9f6d9d7042">The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Bengaluru office. Programme Officer will work closely with CIS-A2K Team (hereinafter Team) and would report to the Executive Director/any supervisor in Team.</span></div>
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<h3 dir="ltr">Characteristics of the Programme Officer</h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">High level of commitment: The Programme Officer should believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion, open to input and feedback, a proactive and candid communicator who wants people to know what s/he is doing and isn't afraid to bring others in when things are off-track or when you need help and should able to handle criticism in a mature fashion.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Community builder: It is essential that the Programme Officer sees herself/himself as a partner to and supporter of the Wikimedians who have and will continue to be the leaders in building the Wikimedia projects. The Programme Officer must be willing and able to work with a diverse array of people, many of whom come from non-traditional backgrounds and have a fervent commitment to Wikimedia movement’s community-led nature.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Partnership developer: Able to initiate, negotiate and operate partnerships that advance the Wikimedia mission in Indic languages and English (as relevant to India) with a wide range of institutions across the public, NGO, universities, philanthropic and private sector.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Willing to travel: The Programme Officer must regularly travel within India to engage with Wikimedia communities and partner with institutions.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Responsibilities</h2>
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<p dir="ltr">You will be responsible for the overall communications of Team that include storytelling in the form of interviews, blogs, opinion pieces in newspaper/other platforms, regular coverage in both Indian language and English media, and anything beyond.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You will be exploring widely from conventional to new media to spread the stories of the hundreds and thousands of volunteers that make the Indian-language Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects such great knowledge repositories.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Creating original stories of challenges and learning, and successes of Wikimedia community in general and the ones that we closely work with in particular.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Function as an interface between A2K team and the community, and help the team better work collaboratively with the community.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Sharing the work of the community and A2k team in a regular basis in the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter">monthly newsletters</a> and other places.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Providing training on effective communications to the communities in a need basis, and supporting them to independently tell their own stories in their own languages.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Announcement of programmatic activities in the form of announcements, blogs and reports, and microblogging (social media, etc.).</p>
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Interviewing Wikimedians under the ambit of the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak">WikipediansSpeak</a> [1] project and beyond, and share the story of the Wikimedia community widely in the media</span></div>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Required skills</h2>
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<p dir="ltr">Graduate with a strong track record of success in high performance organisations, preferably in non-profits.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Experience could be during studies or after, primarily in blogging, writing organisation reports, managing social media for organisations, interviewing and covering people’s stories in mainstream media.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Prior experience of working in a collaborative community, preferably and open one like Wikipedia and in online.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Good understanding of the basics of organisational programme design and management.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Strong understanding of the Internet and the forces that underpin the success of Wikipedia. Active participation as a Wikimedia volunteer would be an asset, though not a prerequisite (must be prepared to demonstrate knowledge of how Wikipedia works in interviews).</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Experience working in a global, multicultural and diverse team environment will be preferred.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Must be fluent in English and at least in one Indian language.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">A good understanding of the cultural and knowledge universe of the Indian language communities.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Location: The position is based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Remuneration: Compensation structure will be determined by the level of expertise, experience and current remuneration.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To apply, please send your resume to Tito Dutta (tito+po2019@cis-india.org) by 4 June 2019. Please do not miss the +po2019 part in the email, that is an email filter for us)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-communication-officer-position'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-communication-officer-position</a>
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No publishertitoJobsAccess to Knowledge2019-06-04T06:45:28ZBlog EntryWikidata Advisor (Consultant) position open
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/wikidata-advisor-consultant-position-open
<b>The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society is seeking applications for the position of Wikidata Advisor (consultant), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme.
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<p><span style="text-align: justify;">The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications from prospective candidates for the position of Wikidata Advisor, to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. </span></p>
<p><span style="text-align: justify;">The position will be either based in CIS’ Bangalore office No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru, 560071, or the advisor may be remotely located (must be in India) also. </span></p>
<h2><span style="text-align: justify;">Position summary</span></h2>
<p><span style="text-align: justify;">As a Wikidata advisor you will </span><span style="text-align: justify;">work closely with the CIS-A2K Team on the work-plan to improve and support Wikidata community in India.</span></p>
<h2><span style="text-align: justify;">Characteristics of a Project Advisor</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">High level of commitment: The person should believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Willing to travel: The advisor must regularly travel within India to conduct and support Wikidata workshops and events. This also includes meetings with different institutions, and CIS team meetings.</p>
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Responsibilities</h2>
<div>A Wikidata advisor's responsibility includes but not limited to:<br />
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Supporting Indic Wikidata communities in all possible wiki-ways such as helping in community-planned Wikidata activities, </li><li>
Conducting national-level/zonal workshops in India </li><li>Creating movement resources (such as handbooks, help videos, manuals) based on community needs-assessment </li><li>Sharing Wikidata's global best practices among Indian communities, </li><li>Wikidata India IRC conducting
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<h2> Eligibility criteria</h2>
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<ul><li>The person must have knowledge about Wikidata project, Wikidata activities in India, different Wikimedia projects such as Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia etc</li><li>The person must have active involvement on Wikidata and experience</li><li>The person must have knowledge at least intermediate level knowledge about Sparql/query creation (required for workshops, and on-Wiki query support</li><li>The person must know about/have experience of working with tools like QuickStatement, Mix'n'Match, Tabernacle, OpenRefine and other important tools frequently used on Wikidata</li></ul>
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<h3>Plus</h3>
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<ul><li>prior experience of conducting Wikidata-related event (such as data-thon) will be considered a plus.</li><li>prior experience of working with database will be considered as a plus</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Location: The position is based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office or remote (applicant must be residing in India during the working period)</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Remuneration</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Remuneration will be decided after selection. Expected monthly remuneration is around INR 32,000. As this is a consultant position, no other benefit is available</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Apply</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">If you want to apply for this position, please send your CV and a letter to tito+wikidata2019@cis-india.org (do not miss +wikidata2019 part from the email id, it is a filter for us). </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Your letter/document should narrate your experience and works in details. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Please also write, what makes you interested to apply for the position, and some of your ideas to improve Wikidata projects in India. The last date apply for this position is 31 May 2019. Appointment will be based on expert opinion, and review.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/wikidata-advisor-consultant-position-open'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/wikidata-advisor-consultant-position-open</a>
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No publishertitoJobsAccess to Knowledge2019-05-19T15:32:55ZBlog EntryCIS-A2K Finance Officer: Call for application
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-a2k-finance-officer-call-for-application
<b>The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society is seeking applications for the position of Finance Officer, to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only. </b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-2cbaa201-7fff-704f-ac81-80804592d3da" style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications from prospective candidates who identify themselves as female, for the position of Finance Officer, to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman Finance Officer will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement and also it will bring a gender balance in the team. The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Bangalore office No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru, 560071. Finance Officer will work closely with the CIS-A2K Team and would report to the Executive Director/any supervisor in Team.</p>
<h2 id="docs-internal-guid-e71dfde4-7fff-b4ae-5d8b-85f123ca4ea8" dir="ltr">Position Summary</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">As a Finance Officer, your job will be to support the A2K Programme and the community members in financial related aspects such as filing the reimbursements, maintaining the books of accounts etc.</p>
<h2 id="docs-internal-guid-f0265c8d-7fff-5636-302f-5c7e206305cc" dir="ltr">Characteristics of the Programme Officer</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">High level of commitment: The Finance Officer should believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Willing to travel: The Finance Officer must regularly travel within India during the events to help the community members to file the reimbursements.</p>
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<h2 id="docs-internal-guid-9e1e5026-7fff-267a-9c8e-2bd46f93b0b1" dir="ltr">Responsibilities</h2>
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<p dir="ltr">You will be responsible for the overall finance-related aspects of Team that include maintaining the books of accounts, filing the reimbursements.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Assistance in book-keeping to include monthly expenditure, financial statements, accounts receivable, accounts payable, disbursement journal, trial balance, tax reports, etc. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Work in preparation of budgets, proposals, objectives, audits, annual reports.</p>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
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<p dir="ltr">Prior experience of working in a collaborative community, preferably an open movement.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Must be fluent in English and at least in one Indian language.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Minimum of 1-year experience in clerical/bookkeeping/accounting field.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Ability and flexibility to deal with pressure and deadlines.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Good knowledge of formulas in excel sheets.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Basic knowledge of Tally software.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Wikimedians will be given priority.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Location: The position is based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Remuneration: Compensation structure will be determined by the level of expertise, experience and current remuneration.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Contract period</h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Initial contract will be till 30 June 2019, following the current work-plan of the A2K team</p>
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<h2 dir="ltr"><strong>Apply</strong></h2>
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<p dir="ltr">To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to Tito Dutta (tito+fo@cis-india.org) (please do not miss the +fo part in the email address). The last date of application is 18 March 2019.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-a2k-finance-officer-call-for-application'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-a2k-finance-officer-call-for-application</a>
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No publishertitoJobsAccess to Knowledge2019-03-07T08:46:29ZBlog EntrySupporting Indian Community 2018: Needs Assessment
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/supporting-indian-community-2018-needs-assessment
<b>The Wikimedia Foundation and Google worked in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages.
Here is the needs-assessment report.</b>
<div align="center"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSxRV2oPrNfLc2bGHPu4UgqJKOFlEhFlwtFhc9Eaq9cw7DvYEPJXlQTPI6MpjqyucYlA36GQSqk7O-3/pub?embedded=true" height="1020" width="700"></iframe></div>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/supporting-indian-community-2018-needs-assessment'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/supporting-indian-community-2018-needs-assessment</a>
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No publishertitoAccess to Knowledge2019-02-06T21:46:14ZBlog EntryUtlilization Certificate: Access to Knowledge: The Centre for Internet & Society 2017-2018
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/utlilization-certificate-access-to-knowledge-the-centre-for-internet-society-2017-2018
<b>Utlilization Certificate: Access to Knowledge: The Centre for Internet & Society 2017-2018. Please click on the file to view/download it.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/utlilization-certificate-access-to-knowledge-the-centre-for-internet-society-2017-2018'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/utlilization-certificate-access-to-knowledge-the-centre-for-internet-society-2017-2018</a>
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No publishertito2018-11-07T10:26:21ZFileCall for Position - Programme Officer (Communication) - Access to Knowledge
http://editors.cis-india.org/jobs/call-for-position-programme-officer-communication-a2k-2018
<b>We are inviting applications for the position of a Programme Officer (Communication) to join the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team at the Centre for Internet and Society. Please find below the description of the position, the eligibility criteria, and the application process.
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<h4>To contribute to, support, and lead public communication of the work of the CIS-A2K team, we are looking for a creative, dedicated, and enterprising individual to join the team as Programme Officer (Communications). Please note that women and trans candidates, especially those from socio-economically marginalised communities, and women who are returning to work after a hiatus will be given preference.</h4>
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<p><a href="#background">Project Background</a></p>
<p><a href="#responsibilities">Responsibilities</a></p>
<p><a href="#competencies">Competencies</a></p>
<p><a href="#req-skills-exp">Required Skills and Experience</a></p>
<p><a href="#des-skills-exp">Desirable Skills and Experience</a></p>
<p><a href="#location-remuneration">Location and Remuneration</a></p>
<p><a href="#application">Application Process</a></p>
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<h3 id="background">Project Background</h3>
<p>The CIS-A2K team is supported by Wikimedia Foundation to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in south Asia and in Indian languages. The current work plan (2018-19) of the CIS-A2K team is focused on working towards creating an inclusive Wiki atmosphere in India, with emphasis on creating safe spaces, and promoting activities to bridge gender gap in Wiki projects across languages. Further, CIS-A2K facilitates exchange and incubation of ideas amongst Indian language Wikimedia communities, which contributes to the growth of these community and enables emergence of community leaders. During the current year, the A2K team is investing resources and energy on 4 programs/ideas that we believe are going to be 'triggers of change': 1) Focus Project Area, 2) MediaWiki Training, 3) Bridging Gender Gap, and 4) Wikisource Conference India. Please find a detailed description of our proposed activities during 2018-19 on our Meta-Wiki page.</p>
<h3 id="responsibilities">Responsibilities</h3>
<p>The CIS-A2K team is primarily based in the Bangalore office of CIS, and the Programme Officer (Communication), henceforth POC, will be expected to work out of the same office. Members of this team are also based in Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Hyderabad (Telangana), and Sangli (Maharashtra), and the POC will be expected to work closely with them - generally remotely, and sometimes by travelling to these locations</p>
<p>To support and drive outreach of the work being done by the CIS-A2K team, the POC will be responsible for the following tasks:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Public communication (60% of monthly work):</strong> POC will be responsible for the overall public-facing communication of the work and activities of the CIS-A2K team. This includes planning, driving, and carrying out multi-media documentation of ongoing activities of the team; announcement of programmatic activities in terms of authoring press releases, opinion pieces, short updates, and social media posts, including helping CIS-A2K team members with doing the same; co-authoring and editing the major reports prepared by the team, primarily for submission to Wikimedia Foundation; managing and posting on the Twitter account of the CIS-A2K team; and preparing and publishing a monthly newsletter to share the work of Indian Wikimedia communities and the CIS-A2K team. The CIS-A2K team usually conducts 4 events each month on average.</li>
<li><strong>Innovative media projects (25% of monthly work):</strong> POC may explore widely from conventional to new media forms to create original stories of experiences, challenges, and learnings of members of Indian Wikimedia communities in general, and communities engaged with by the CIS-A2K team in particular. This may include storytelling in the form of interviews, blogs, audio and video productions including those native to social media platforms, with a focus on producing content in multiple Indian languages, often with support from CIS-A2K team and members of Wikimedia communities. The focus of these media projects will be on the stories of the volunteers who edit and contribute to Indian language Wikimedia projects, as well as gaps and futures thereof. This task includes interviewing Indian Wikimedians under the ambit of the WikipediansSpeak project.</li>
<li><strong>Liasoning and training (15% of monthly work):</strong> POC will function as an interface between A2K team and the Indian (and global) Wikimedia communities as the first point of contact for incoming communications, and inform the CIS-A2K about requests and concerns shared by members of these communities. POC may also be invited to provide training on effective communications for members of Indian Wikimedia communities, as needed, and to support them to independently tell their own stories in their languages.</li></ul>
<h3 id="competencies">Competencies</h3>
<p><em>Core Competencies</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Accountability</li>
<li>Awareness and sensitivity regarding issues of gender and sexuality</li>
<li>Critical appreciation of open knowledge initiatives</li>
<li>Effective communication</li>
<li>Inclusive collaboration</li>
<li>Intellectual curiosity and openness</li>
<li>Respect for diversity</li>
<li>Strong cross-cultural competency</li></ul>
<p><em>Functional Competencies</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to learn-at-work, especially about the Wikimedia ecosystem</li>
<li>Highly organised, motivated, and able to take initiative</li>
<li>Experience of managing public communications and outreach, including managing mailing lists and social media accounts</li>
<li>Experience of producing multimedia content, including writing and web-based content</li></ul>
<h3 id="req-skills-exp">Required Skills and Experience</h3>
<p><em>Languages</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English</li>
<li>Working knowledge (or better) of at least one other Indian language</li></ul>
<p><em>Professional</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Two years of working experience in an Indian/global organisation with diverse members, and in a position that involved managing communication and producing text and media content</li></ul>
<p><em>Technical</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Basic understanding of functioning of Wikipedia, and ideally of other Wikimedia projects too</li>
<li>Basic ability to produce audio/video content, including recording and editing</li></ul>
<h3 id="des-skills-exp">Desirable Skills and Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active user of free and open source software</li>
<li>Experience of actively contributing to Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia and others</li>
<li>Experience of being a member of an Indian Wikimedia community, or taking part in Wikimedia-related events</li>
<li>Experience of being part of a free and open source software / open knowledge community</li></ul>
<h3 id="location-remuneration">Location and Remuneration</h3>
<p>The position is based out of the Bangalore office of CIS.</p>
<p>Monthly remuneration for the position will be Rs. 40,000-45,000 (including taxes) based on the level of experience and previous salary.</p>
<h3 id="application">Application Process</h3>
<p>We invite interested (and eligible) candidates to apply for the position by sending us the following documents to <strong>tito@cis-india.org</strong>, with “Application for Programme Officer (Communication)” as the subject, by <strong>Sunday, October 28, 2018</strong>:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Cover letter (2 pages):</strong> This should introduce your relevant academic, professional, and other experiences, and describe the kind of work you look forward to do as part of the CIS-A2K team. We strongly recommend reading the 2018-19 work plan of the CIS-A2K team while writing this cover letter, as well as for preparation for the interview to follow (if you are shortlisted for interview).</li>
<li><strong>CV:</strong> This should provide details of your academic, professional, and other achievements</li><li><strong>Work samples:</strong> The position will require you to produce effective writing outputs in a regular manner. Please share 2 samples of your writing (published or unpublished). In case you have produced media works (photographs, audio/video interviews, short films, etc.), please share 1 or 2 samples of the same. While sharing media works, please share the URL to the same and not the actual files.</li></ol>
<p>We will prepare a short list of candidates, on the basis of the submitted applications, and inform you of our selection decision <strong>by Friday, November 02</strong>.</p>
<p>The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by the CIS team, including members of the CIS-A2K team. If needed, there will be two rounds of interview.</p>
<p>We will take the final hiring decision by early November, inform the shortlisted candidates accordingly, and invite the selected person to join our from December 1, 2018.</p>
<p>Please do not hesitate to write to us at <strong>tito@cis-india.org</strong> for any clarification regarding this.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/jobs/call-for-position-programme-officer-communication-a2k-2018'>http://editors.cis-india.org/jobs/call-for-position-programme-officer-communication-a2k-2018</a>
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No publishertito2018-11-02T09:37:09ZBlog EntryWikipedia edit-a-thon in mind? Kindly start here
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mind-kindly-start-here
<b>Are you thinking to conduct a Wikipedia edit-a-thon? You may use this document as an initial guide. Please note: this article is written keeping specially organisations, institutions, and individuals in mind, who are new to Wikipedia world.
We are starting this post with some basic questions. Please feel free to ask questions by mailing tito "at" cis-india.org</b>
<p>Are you thinking to conduct a Wikipedia edit-a-thon? That's great. In this article I'll explain a few thinks, which might help to plan your ediit-a-thon your better?</p>
<p>First thing first, a few questions:</p>
<ol><li>Do you want to contribute to Wikipedia or other projects? Other than Wikipedia, there are a few other interesting projects such as Wikisource, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons. <br /></li><li>Do you want to contribute to other language Wikipedias/projects such as Tamil Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource, Bengali Wikisource etc., other than the same old English Wikipedia? <br /></li></ol>
<p>If you are planning to do an English Wikipedia edit-a-thon, it is comparatively more difficult, and needs much more preparation. I'll explain some of these things below.</p>
<p>Now let's talk about edit-a-thon structure:</p>
<ul><li>Do you want to do it an offline edit-a-thon? Or is it going to be an online edit-a-thon?</li><li>What is the duration?</li><li>How many people are going to participate? Are they already Wikipedians or new to Wikipedia?</li></ul>
<h2>Help pages: Getting started with Wikipedia<br /></h2>
<p>Let's start by gathering a few help pages' link which will help to get started with Wikipedia:</p>
<ul><li>Introduction to Wikipedia: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction</a> <br /></li><li>CheatSheet: learn how to write using Wikicode <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet</a><br /></li></ul>
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<h2>Policies and guidelines<br /></h2>
<p>It is really important to know about a few policies before you start editing Wikipedia. Please explain these policies and guidelines to edit-a-thon participants as well.</p>
<ol><li><strong>Notability</strong>: we have "notability" policy. What are the topics we can write about? Please read here: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability </a> Now, these are "General Notability Guidelines or in short we call it GNG (please read the "General notability guideline" in the page). Now, we have detailed explanation pages on different notability topics: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Notability_guide">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Notability_guide</a>, please read the pages you need such as <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)</a>. Now in every guideline page you'll get something called "basic criteria", and/or "additional criteria". These are the guidelines you need to pass. A good argument goes like this: "The article meets Wikipedia notability because it meets "this", "this", "this", and "this" (or #1, #3, #4, and #5) of the mentioned notability guideline. <br /></li><li><strong>Verifiability</strong>: The next important policy is Verifiability. Please read <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability</a>. Please also read, what are reliable references or how to identify reliable sources: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaa:Identifying_reliable_sources">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaa:Identifying_reliable_sources</a>. There is a fine list of references such as forum posts, personal blogs, eCommerce websites, press releases, user-generated content etc. etc. we should not use as references on Wikipedia.</li><li><strong>Neutral point of view:</strong> Neutral point of view is absolutely important. Please read: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view</a></li></ol>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> I do not have references, can I create pages or add information?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> No, references are important. Specially, on English Wikipedia, where content are reviewed more, reliable secondary references are absolutely needed.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> But, I am writing the "truth".</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> Wikipedia works with :verifiability, and not truth. Please read: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth">Verifiability, not truth</a></p>
<p><strong>Question: </strong>I can not provide the things you are asking, but I am working for a cause. Can't you help?</p>
<p><strong>Answer: </strong>That's a good question. A2K cares about bridging gender gap, knowledge revolution, and diversity. However, please note, it is a standard practice Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion, and Wikipedia is also not a place to do advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind. If you really want to advocated about your cause, why not try your own website, blog, or some forums?</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mind-kindly-start-here'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mind-kindly-start-here</a>
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No publishertitoWikimediaEdit-a-thonWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-05-11T08:15:56ZBlog EntryWikipedia Workshop on Template Creation and Modification Conducted in Bengaluru
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-on-template-creation-and-modification-conducted-in-bengaluru
<b>A Wikipedia workshop on template creation, modification was conducted in Bengaluru on 30 July 2017. Here is a report.</b>
<p>A Wikipedia workshop on template creation, modification was conducted in Bengaluru on 30 July 2017. 9 Wikipedians, mostly associated with <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians">Karavali Wikimedians</a> and Kannada Wikimedia projects attended the workshop. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on any number of articles or pages. They are commonly used for boilerplate messages, standard warnings or notices, infoboxes, navigational boxes and similar purposes.<sup>1</sup> The workshop was requested by Kannada Wikimedians.</p>
<p>The workshop started with explaining template and its importance. This was followed by discussing structure of a template, and creation of a simple template with a couple of variables. This activity continued for sometime, and designing a template with CSS markup was shown. Following this different types of templates such as infobox, navbox, sidebar, informational templates such as Hatnote were shown and discussed. On Wikipedia there is a Special page with a list of wanted templates. The participants studied the page and started making a list of templates they should create or improve. It was found that a good number of templates on Kannada Wikipedia don't have proper documentation in native languages. The participants came to a conclusion that attempts should be made to properly localize the template. During the workshop the participants spent sometime to translate and localize some template documentations.</p>
<p>The workshop was a preliminary one in nature and should be followed up by an advanced workshop.</p>
<h2>Image credit<br /></h2>
<ul><li>
<a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kannada_wiki_workshop_on_Template_02.jpg">File:Kannada wiki workshop on Template 02.jp</a>g by <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gopala_Krishna_A">User:Gopala Krishna A</a> from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license<br /></li></ul>
<h2>Footnotes</h2>
<ol><li><a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template">Help:Template</a> on English Wikipedia, accessed 10 August 2017</li><li>Special:WantedTemplates on a Wikipedia<br /></li></ol>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-on-template-creation-and-modification-conducted-in-bengaluru'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-on-template-creation-and-modification-conducted-in-bengaluru</a>
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No publishertitoWikipediaWorkshopKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-08-10T06:48:26ZBlog EntryCIS-A2K Co-Facilitates Punjabi Wikimedians Wikimedia Strategy Meeting
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-co-facilitates-punjabi-wikimedians-wikimedia-strategy-meeting
<b>On 15 July 2017, Punjabi Wikimedia User Group, conducted Punjabi Wikimedia Strategy Meeting at Patiala. CIS-A2K members Tanveer Hasan and Tito Dutta attended the event as co-facilitator and resource person. The event was followed by a meeting on the next day when active Punjabi Wikimedians and CIS-A2K representatives discussed different plans and strategies for the Punjabi Wikimedian projects in the coming months.</b>
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is conducting, encouraging to conduct and supporting Strategy Meetings in different countries of the world. Wikimedia Foundation <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy">relates</a>
<p> these meetings to strategy for the Wikimedia movement, strategy for entities such as the Wikimedia Foundation and Chapters, and roadmaps for individual Projects (e.g., Wikidata or Wiktionary or Wiki Loves Monuments). In India, several communities have conducted or have shown interest to conduct Wikimedia Strategy Meetings. Punjabi Wikimedians, a WMF recognized user group, conducted their Strategy Meeting at Punjabi University, Patiala on 15 July 2017. Punjabi Wikimedians Satdeep Gill and Stalinjeet were the primary hosts. Around 16 people from different domains of knowledge, including active Punjabi Wikimedians participated in the meeting. Punjabi Wikimedians invited CIS members Tanveer Hasan and Tito Dutta to co-facilitate the event. CIS-A2K helped Punjabi Wikimedians to plan the meeting structure and anchor the discussion.</p>
<p>On 16 July, a meeting between Punjabi Wikimedians and CIS-A2K was conducted. The aim of the meeting was to plan Punjabi Wikimedians' events and activities for the next one year. 8 active Punjabi Wikimedians and Tanveer Hasan and Tito Dutta, from CIS-A2K participated in this meeting. A good number of important topics were discussed during the meeting such as―</p>
<ul><li>Should Punjabi Wikimedians register themselves as an organization and what are advantages and disadvantages of registering as an organization, <br /></li><li>How can CIS help Punjabi Wikimedians as Fiscal Sponsor to route grants from the Wikimedia Foundation,</li><li>Wikidata Workshop (North India)― how can Punjabi Wikimedians contribute to and be part of it.</li><li>Regional Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Training for Punjabi Wikimedians.</li><li>Wikisource digitization</li></ul>
<p>CIS-A2K provided suggestions and inputs on these topics. CIS-A2K thanks Punjabi Wikimedians for hosting the meetings.</p>
<h2>Image credit</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punjabi_Wikimedians_Strategy_Salon_-_15_July_2017_01.jpg">File:Punjabi Wikimedians Strategy Salon - 15 July 2017 01.jpg</a> by <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Satdeep_Gill">Satdeep Gil</a>l from Wikimedia Commons, image licensed under theCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-co-facilitates-punjabi-wikimedians-wikimedia-strategy-meeting'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k-co-facilitates-punjabi-wikimedians-wikimedia-strategy-meeting</a>
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No publishertitoPunjabi WikimediansWikipedia2017-08-01T08:02:14ZBlog EntryWikidata workshop (South India) conducted in Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore
<b>Wikidata workshop (South India) has been conducted in Bangalore on 10 and 11 June 2017. 11 Wikimedians from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the workshop. Here is a report.</b>
<p>Wikidata (<a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikidata.org">https://www.wikidata.org</a>) is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database that collects structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.<sup>1</sup> In India, in the recent years, we have seen increased enthusiasm about the project. CIS-A2K received several requests from different communities to conduct Wikidata workshops. In response to the requests, CIS-A2K organised a Wikidata workshop on 10 and 11 June 2017 at Bangalore. The workshop was a regional one, and participants were invited from 5 South Indian states: a) Andhra Pradesh, b) Karnataka, c) Kerala, d) Tamil Nadu, and e) Telangana. 11 community members from 5 Indic Wikimedia communities (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) participated in the workshop, 3 of the participants were women.</p>
<p>The workshop was a general orientation. On the first day, the following topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Introduction to Wikidata and its importance<br /></li><li>Wikidata items<br /></li><li>Wikidata labels, descriptions</li><li>Property and statement</li><li>Hands' on activity: Label-a-thon<br /></li></ol>
<p>On the second day these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Complete structure of a Wikidata item</li><li>Wikidata references</li><li>Using Wikidata in Wikipedia, using statement, property</li><li>Wikidata gadgets</li><li>A couple of Wikimedia labs tools (note: a few tools such as Wikidata game was in the planned topics, but could not be shown as we faced server error almost all day long)</li><li>Hands' on activity by group: Label-a-thon, adding references</li></ol>
<p>This was CIS-A2K's first attempt to conduct a Wikidata workshop in India. To keep it cost-effective, we made it a regional one (eg. no air travel was needed for any participant). This was a fledgling attempt to test the waters before we take this forward to other regions in India. This was an effort to see if the participants felt the need for such a workshop as much as we did for conducting it. It enabled us also to understand the modules and sessions to include in a manner that is tailored for teaching Wikidata</p>
<p>Tamil Wikimedian User:Info-farmer, who participated in the workshop gave his feedback after the event:</p>
<blockquote><span class="author-a-gz78zz71z0z86ztz83zz87zz82zz88zz70zz71zz78zz71zz78zp">I was waiting for a theme-specific workshop for a long one & I liked this one. Please encourage such theme-specific workshops special interest groups. <br /></span></blockquote>
<p>Following this event, and based on the need-assessment CIS-A2K may conduct such workshops in other regions of India.</p>
<p>An event dashboard is available <a class="external-link" href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CIS-A2K/Wikidata_India_Workshop">here</a>. The event page on Meta Wiki may be seen <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikidata_Workshop:_South_India">here</a>.</p>
<h2>Footnotes</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link">Introduction to Wikidata</a><br /></li></ul>
<h2>Acknowledgement</h2>
<ul><li>Manasa Rao, for help to improve this blog post</li></ul>
<h2>Image credit</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_South_India_Logo.png">File:Wikidata Workshop South India Logo.png</a> from Wikimedia Commons, author: Saumyaa Naidu, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore</a>
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No publishertitoWikidataWikidata workshop2017-06-28T09:48:30ZBlog EntryDalit History Month 2017 edit-a-thon in Delhi, India
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dalit-history-month-2017-edit-a-thon-in-delhi-india
<b>Dalit History Month edit-a-thon was conducted in Delhi on 20 May 2017. Here is a report.</b>
<p>A Dalit HIstory Month edit-a-thon was conducted Delhi, India on 20 May, 2017. This event was organised by Whose Knowledge?. A member from the Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore, attended the event as a resource person. The history of Dalit movement, and their knowledge are not very-well represented on Wikipedia, and it is essential that attempts are made to bridge such gaps. This edit-a-thon was such an initiative. On 15 April, this year, an edit-a-thon was <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dalit_History_Month_2017#Berkeley.2C_USA_-_April_15">conducted</a> in Berkeley, US, and the Delhi edit-a-thon was followed by that.</p>
<p>14 editors participated in the edit-a-thon (not counting the resource persons). In the introduction speech Wikimedian and the primary co-ordinator of the event Inaaya explained the details the importance, scope and objectives of the edit-a-thon. This was followed by hands' on editing activities. A few participants were new to Wikipedia, and they created their accounts. Discussions took place to understand the gaps, and the difficulties. It was noticed that finding references to create or expand articles is sometimes a big challenge. Other than referencing, other topics such as Wikipedia manual of style, images, image license policy etc. were also discussed. Although it was a one-day workshop, the aim was to continue it after the event as well, so the participants were encouraged to continue editing. We have <a class="external-link" href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Delhi/May_Dalit_History_edit-a-thon/home">statistics</a> of last 1 month, and it shows that in this time period: 45 articles were edited, 11 articles were created, and more than 10 thousand words were added.</p>
<p>There are plans to conduct follow-up Wiki-events. A few students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, showed interest to form Wikipedia club in their campus. Although, the edit-a-thon was not very big in scale and size, taking such an initiative itself is challenging, and hopefully such initiatives will help reduce the knowledge gap on Wikipedia.</p>
<h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dalit_History_Month_2017">Event page</a> on Wikipedia</li></ul>
<h2>Image source</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalit_History_Month_header.jpg">File:Dalit History Month header.jpg</a>, from Wikimedia Commons, author: <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bilqischondol">Bilqischondol</a>, file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dalit-history-month-2017-edit-a-thon-in-delhi-india'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dalit-history-month-2017-edit-a-thon-in-delhi-india</a>
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No publishertitoEdit-a-thonWikipediaDalit History Month2017-06-21T06:09:39ZBlog EntryMini TTT and MWT held in Kolkata
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata
<b>A regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata. </b>
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CIS-A2K’s widely well-regarded flagship skill building program was conducted in Kolkata between 7- 8 January 2017, in partnership with the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. The two-day event was held at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. There were 20 participants at the event, of which 18 were male and only two female.
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/49HTMkmS0v-CH-6pEwhlzC2YT_trE80gtHppMVPyp-tIrqPAIdGCOiNVXcrR77rV_-jIjrdlATgNdu17hU4ZHX8l9F18tqcy21bhEzDdfI5YJwV6W69SOe15J33suH-q-S-KDzU" alt="Mini_Train_the_Trainer_and_MediaWiki_Training_Proramme_-_Kolkata_2017-01-07_2458-2461.tif.jpg" height="321" width="602" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr">There were three thematic sessions, each broadly dealing with: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. The participants were taught article enrichment and how to upgrade articles into good category articles on Wikipedia. The participants learnt reference resources in detail in addition to discussing the different types of syntax required to apply the references meaningfully. The participants were also exposed to advanced search techniques on Google in order to gather relevant references.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During the Commons session, the participants were taught the basics of creating categories and subcategories in order to help narrow down searches and hence, image utility on Commons. Facilitating easy identification of an image helps enrich articles in need of descriptive photos. Additionally, participants were encouraged to give specific file names to their images along with a detailed description of the same. This was followed by a technical session on the following popular tools and gadgets that help frequent uploaders on Commons:<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" /></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js">Cat-a-lot</a> is a JavaScript gadget that helps with moving images (or subcategories) between categories or adding categories to search results</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Google Images tab: On File pages, adds a new tab to easily search for similar images on the Internet using<a href="http://images.google.com"> Google Images</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr">OTRS is a tool used by the Wikimedia projects, including Commons, to manage and archive email conversations. The main use of OTRS in relation to Commons is to verify and archive<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Permission"> licensing permissions</a>.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/">Flickr2Commons</a> - Tool to easily upload single and multiple files from Flickr to Commons. This tool uses OAuth to upload files to Commons.</p>
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<p>In addition to these on-wiki discussions, a broader discussion took place on photography tips such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds">rule of thirds</a> which helps enhance the effect and purpose of the image.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The final thematic session was on Wikisource. Participants had a hands on lesson in proofreading methodology in addition to learning about image formatting, formatting table of contents, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breakshttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breaks">table access page break</a>, text divider, and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Tools_and_scripts">tools and script of Wikisource</a>.</p>
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/61UzSTUADNgRVk0uuw9_Qks9xbayum2eg9kd0XmfrxwG9uSql9YX1-PcVoro0ng7ZJUDHghZZUFsPahZroTJs6Aw9BqmWiPzFCy4mbraZ9CGkbWN6nm7ZC_kz4PBk3eoK6Q7o0I" alt="MiniTTTKolkata2017_-_Celebration_by_Participants_09.jpg" height="401" width="602" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata</a>
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No publishertitoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpenness2017-06-28T09:53:55ZBlog EntryWikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in Mangaluru
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-for-konkani-students-conducted-in-mangalore
<b>A two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.</b>
<p>A two day workshop was conducted for students who opted konkani at U.G.& P.G.courses of Mangalore University on 16 and 17 December at Besant Evening College, Mangaluru. This event was jointly organised by Mangalore University Konkani Adhyayana Peeta, and the Dept. of Konkani (M. A.). The Centre for Internet Society, India (CIS, India) and Besant Evening College, Mangaluru were the collaborators. Dr. Devadasa Pai of Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy was the primary co-ordinator. A representative from CIS, India participated in the workshop as a resource person. Harriet Vidyasagar, a Konkani Wikipedia enthusiast and supporter, and Sabrina Hougaard attended the event to groom the participant and share their expertise.<br /><br />16 undergraduate and post-graduate colleges from 3 different colleges of Mangalore participated in this workshop. The table below shows participation from each college and gender ratio.</p>
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<td align="center"><strong>College</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Participants</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Female</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Male</strong><br /></td>
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<td align="center"> Mangalore University College<br /> <br /></td>
<td align="center">2 <br /></td>
<td align="center"> 1</td>
<td align="center">1 <br /></td>
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<td align="center">St. Aloysius College</td>
<td align="center"> 9</td>
<td align="center">4 <br /></td>
<td align="center">5 <br /></td>
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<td align="center"> Milagress Degree College</td>
<td align="center"> 5</td>
<td align="center"> 3</td>
<td align="center">2 <br /></td>
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<td align="center"><strong>Total</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>16</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>8</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>8</strong><br /></td>
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<p>The first day's (16 December) event was started with general introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. The following topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Wikipedia and Wikimedia movement</li><li>Importance of Wikipedia as a source of knowledge and information in the World Wide Web (WWW)</li><li>Free knowledge movement</li><li>Indic language Wikipedias</li></ol>
<p>This was followed by account creation where the participants were asked to create accounts on Wikipedia. After that they were taught about Wikipedia user page, and sandbox page. They were also taught about basic editing (general formatting) on sandbox using Visual Editor.</p>
<p>On the second day (17 December) the participants wrote articles on their Konkani Wikipedia user sandbox page in Kannada script. 16 students wrote more than 25 short articles on their sandbox.</p>
<p>They were also introduced to Wikipedia content translation tool and Wikidata. During the Wikidata session, following a general introduction to Wikidata, the participants were asked to add labels and descriptions in Indian languages such as Kannada, Konkani etc. More than 150 edits were made during this exercise.</p>
<p>This workshop should be followed up by another iteration where the participants will be taught about the next level of editing.</p>
<h2>Image credit</h2>
<p>Source: <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkani_Wiki_Workshop_Mangaluru_7.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>, author: User:Outofindia, CC-BY-SA-4.0</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-for-konkani-students-conducted-in-mangalore'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-workshop-for-konkani-students-conducted-in-mangalore</a>
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No publishertitoKonkani WikipediaWikipediaWorkshop2017-06-28T09:57:32ZBlog Entry